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Thanksgiving

We went to New Jersey for Thanksgiving this year. It’s something we’ve talked about for years and we were finally able to make it happen this year. What a blast we had! We drove all the way there (15.5 hours –the kids did great!) on Monday and came home again on Friday (14.5 hours [...]

Dear Santa…

Picture. Santa's in red,Nick's in purple. He thought Santa would like the red and black in the corners of his paper. I'm sure he's right.

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It’s time!!!

Christmas is coming and that means lots of things,but one of them is that we get to start reading Christmas books again! For the past several (4,maybe?) years,I’ve taken 25 Christmas books,wrapped them up,and let the kids unwrap one a night until the 24th where they read The Night Before [...]

Busy busy busy!

It’s been too long since I’ve blogged. I miss it and yet it still won’t be happening for a while yet. What have I been doing? Well…

Knitting a hat

Knitting a scarf

Knitting a baby sweater

Cleaning madly to prepare for realtors to come this week

Driving 1,000 miles,twice

Spending wonderful time with [...]

Nick’s birthday day

Nick’s birthday day was a great day. Since we had family up in Decorah for Homecoming,we went up there to celebrate. We left at 7 in the morning and got up there in time to watch the Homecoming parade. Both kids got lots of candy –which is easy when it’s your great grandparents [...]